Geneva, Sept. 12.
A communique presenting an outline of efforts made by the Japanese authorities in China in combatting epidemics was issued here today by the Japanese Permanent Bureau, The Japanese also accuse the Chinese of having poisoned wells in several towns captured by Japan's soldiers, Japanese authorffies took efficient measures to quell the epidemic of cholera that raged in Kiukiang when the Japanese first entered that city on the Yangtze, it is stated, The communique adds, however, that a large number of wells in both Kiukiang and Hsuchow had been found to be polluted, -"The pollution of wells in districts where no cases of cholera had been registered before leads to the belief that certain Chinese elements have resorted to deliberate and systematic action," the despatch concludes its accusation,
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